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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest advances in technology-enhanced learning have provided the means for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also examines the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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