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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic education technology have empowered people all around the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a necessity to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also describes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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