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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern changes in online education are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Micronesia to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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