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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in electronic education technology are enabling students in nations all around the world to take courses online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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