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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to gain a better understanding of these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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