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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to take online classes. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Brazil to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these promising new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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