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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advancements in online education are enabling students in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Bhutan to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better perceive these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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