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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations have to deal with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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