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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that distance learning organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these fascinating new open education endeavours. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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