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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in distance learning have empowered people in nations all aver the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Brunei to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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