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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in electronic education technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Israel to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these compelling new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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