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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in distance learning have provided the means for students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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