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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in distance learning technology make it possible for students all over the world to take courses online. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also addresses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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