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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning technology are enabling people in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations are struggling with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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