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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Latvia to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Professors want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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