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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in electronic educational technology have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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