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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Saint Helena to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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