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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education technology are making it possible for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. This MOOCs book also analyzes the motivational variables involved in self-directed learning experiences. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This amazing new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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