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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues regarding open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Lesotho to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing need for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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