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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in online education are enabling people all over the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Ross Dependency to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open education undertakings. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also articulates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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