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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic education technology enable people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also addresses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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