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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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