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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are having to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Denmark to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education endeavours. Scientists want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also investigates 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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