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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of these exciting new open education endeavours. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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