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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern changes in electronic educational technology have made it possible for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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