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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in online education technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desideratum to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants need to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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