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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which talks about issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New changes in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Belize to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants want to understand these open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive need for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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