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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education technology are providing the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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