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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning have empowered humans all over the world to participate in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Iran to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Corporations want to understand how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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