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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in distance learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions must deal with today because online education technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Houston System to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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