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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern changes in elearning are making it possible for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that blended learning institutions are having to attend to today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we get a handle on poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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