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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brazil to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on low motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these fascinating new open educational experiments. Scientists want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for details the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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