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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. This MOOCs book also describes the benefits of technology integration in k-12 and higher education. Massively open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Belgium to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also deals with the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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