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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in online education have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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