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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning technology are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that elearning technology organizations are considering in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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