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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning technology have made it possible for students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Venezuela to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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