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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in distance learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What strategies are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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