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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in e-learning are enabling learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Guadeloupe to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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