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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning are making it possible for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are struggling with now that online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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