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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advancements in distance learning technology enable people in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Trainers want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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