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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in distance learning are making it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations have to consider now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Tumblr to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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