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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning are enabling students all around the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are several subjects that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What different business models are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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