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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Northern Mariana Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these compelling new open education endeavours. Instructors want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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