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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic educational technology are enabling students all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are considering now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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