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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online learning technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Elidaemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of these important new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also considers the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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