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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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