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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates subjects relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest improvements in online learning technology are empowering learners in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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