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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in online education are providing the means for people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions must deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To respond to this growing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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