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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New changes in digital education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations have to consider now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Seychelles to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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