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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in elearning technology have made it possible for people in nations all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desire for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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