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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology are making it possible for humans all around the world to take online courses. These online MOOCs are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. In response to this demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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