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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in learning technology enable humans all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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