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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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