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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology are providing the means for learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are considering now that distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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