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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in distance learning technology have made it possible for learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Sri Lanka to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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