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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning technology are making it possible for learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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