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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic education technology have empowered humans all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Canada to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education initiatives. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also addresses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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