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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning technology have enabled students all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like Gibraltar to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this increasing desire for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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