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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in electronic educational technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Trainers want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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