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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online learning are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that distance learning institutions must deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like OpenupEd to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these promising new open educational endeavours. People want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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