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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in distance learning have empowered students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This book about MOOCs provides best practices in online teaching based on decades of research. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can we guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like YouTube to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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