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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models 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 we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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