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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology have made it possible for students in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. People want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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