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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning technology enable students in nations all aver the world to take part in online courses. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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