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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in e-learning are making it possible for humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is adequate? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like UC Santa Cruz to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a growing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants need to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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