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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations have to consider more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Mongolia to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this developing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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