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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning have enabled humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that distance learning institutions are struggling with now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and numerous other participants need to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this expanding desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This sensational new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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