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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several subjects that online learning technology institutions have to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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