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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in online learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Saudi Arabia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more available there is a need to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education ventures. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this need for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers 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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