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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in distance learning are enabling students all around the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Eritrea to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations deal with the issues of low motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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