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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in learning technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a growing necessity to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Teachers want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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