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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning make it possible for learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive these compelling new open education initiatives. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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