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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advancements in online education have empowered people all over the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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