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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants get a handle on low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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