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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to participate in courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coral Sea Islands to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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