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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massive online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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