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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOCs? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational endeavours. Educators want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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