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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in elearning are making it possible for students all over the world to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Turks and Caicos Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to understand these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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