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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in distance learning have enabled students all over the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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