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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning technology are making it possible for people all around the world to participate in online classes. These massive online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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