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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning technology enable humans all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Azerbaijan to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other stakeholders desire to better perceive these interesting new open education undertakings. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this desideratum for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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