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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to better understand these important new open educational ventures. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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