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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in electronic educational technology have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these open education undertakings. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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