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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in distance learning enable people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations have to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Academics want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this crescive need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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