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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education are providing the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this increasing desire for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also talks about the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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