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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants certify that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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