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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Peninsula College to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these open educational initiatives. Trainers want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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