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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in technology-enhanced learning have enabled students all around the world to take courses online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these fascinating new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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