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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is passable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a need to be aware of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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