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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like UC Berkeley to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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