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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning have enabled learners all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions are considering today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This sensational new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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