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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern changes in distance learning have enabled people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better grasp these open educational experiments. People want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for details the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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