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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders certify that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bouvet Island to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this developing need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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