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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern gains in electronic educational technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United States to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also explores the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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