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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new evolvements in distance learning technology are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can participants make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Singapore to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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