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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for learners in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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