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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in e-learning are making it possible for learners all over the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Singapore to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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