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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New improvements in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations are considering today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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