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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online learning have provided the means for learners all over the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants want to better comprehend these important new open educational experiments. Educators want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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