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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can we ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better understand these new open education experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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