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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that explores subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern gains in electronic education technology enable learners in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can participants certify that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. People want to comprehend how MOOC courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also considers the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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