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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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