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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also deals with the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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