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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in e-learning technology are enabling humans all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers certify that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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