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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent evolvements in distance learning have provided the means for humans in nations all around the world to take online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning organizations are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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