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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in online education are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are struggling with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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