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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in e-learning have empowered people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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