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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Germany to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational undertakings. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the sensational 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 considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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