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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in distance learning technology have enabled humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also examines 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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