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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology enable learners in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These MOOC classes are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like MenaVersity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more procurable there is a developing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource issues. This new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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