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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in distance learning enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Puerto Rico to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these compelling new open education undertakings. Everybody wants to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also considers 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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