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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in elearning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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