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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to take classes online. These online MOOCs are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Faroe Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing need for details the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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