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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advances in distance learning are empowering people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Korea, South to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing need to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this growing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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