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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in electronic educational technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Duke University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other participants would like to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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