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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that researches topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online learning are empowering learners in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also analyzes the most important 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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