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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations are struggling with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a growing demand to be aware of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these important new open education endeavours. Academics want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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