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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New changes in technology-enhanced learning have empowered learners in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a need to be aware of how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also describes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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