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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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