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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations manage inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also considers the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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