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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Vanuatu to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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