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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online learning have provided the means for students all over the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are struggling with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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