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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology enable humans in nations all aver the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Peter I Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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