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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This sensational new book also researches 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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