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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online learning have enabled humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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