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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in online learning have enabled students in all parts of the world to take online classes. 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 massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions have to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Afghanistan to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants would like to better perceive these compelling new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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