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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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