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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in online courses. These MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations are struggling with now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What business strategies are being used by institutions like FutureLearn to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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