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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. People want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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