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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning technology have provided the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. 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 customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering now that learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cocos (Keeling) Islands to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these significant new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This gripping new book also examines the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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