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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to deal with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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