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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational endeavours. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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