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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in online learning have empowered people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. 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. These massive online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology organizations are having to consider now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Zambia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators handle problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to be more aware of these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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