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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online learning are empowering people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like YouTube to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Trainers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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