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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open education ventures. Scholars want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this crescive demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This sensational new book also examines the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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