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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology are enabling people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that blended learning organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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