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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in online learning technology have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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