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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education have empowered students all over the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning technology institutions have to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching 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 Norfolk Island to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this growing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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