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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in digital education technology enable people in nations all aver the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational ventures. Everyone wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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