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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in e-learning have provided the means for people all around the world to be participants in classes online. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions must deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Brunei to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desideratum for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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