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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in elearning are providing the means for learners all over the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Uruguay to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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