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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in electronic education technology have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Twitter to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for data the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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