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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in electronic education technology are empowering learners all over the world to take classes online. These MOOCs are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This inspiring new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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