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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in learning technology have empowered learners all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning institutions must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Togo to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants get a handle on inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Teachers want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details the 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 new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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