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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in e-learning have made it possible for learners all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Twitter to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants desire to understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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