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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes online. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions have to deal with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions make sure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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