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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in electronic education technology are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that blended learning institutions have to deal with today because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants want to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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