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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning organizations are having to consider now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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