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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest advances in e-learning enable students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational undertakings. Universities want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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