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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in e-learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations must deal with now that distance learning technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these promising new open educational endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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