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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in online education have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these exciting new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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