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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in online education make it possible for people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Nauru to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to better grasp these important new open education endeavours. Professors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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