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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in online education technology enable humans all over the world to take part 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 MOOCs are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Timor-Leste (East Timor) to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open education initiatives. Lecturers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also reviews the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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