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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new changes in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational endeavours. Professors want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this growing need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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