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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education are enabling people in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. 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 MOOCs are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more procurable there is a need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This sensational new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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