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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online education technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and lots of other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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