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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online education have enabled people in every nation on earth to take online classes. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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