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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yemen to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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