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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in distance learning are empowering humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOC courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Bermuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders need to understand these significant new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This definitive new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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