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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online education have enabled students all over the world to take courses online. 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. These massive online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? MOOCs require the instructional design and the technological capacity to process large-scale feedback and interaction in real time. What business models are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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