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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in online education are enabling humans in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Educators want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also examines 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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