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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in distance learning technology are empowering learners in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This amazing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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