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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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