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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education have enabled people in nations all around the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these open educational undertakings. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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