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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in distance learning have made it possible for people all over the world to take courses online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also researches the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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