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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Jersey to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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