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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business models are being used by organizations like Guyana to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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