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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in distance learning have enabled people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Concordia University Wisconsin to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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