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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent changes in technology-enhanced learning have empowered people all over the world to take online courses. These online MOOC courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations must deal with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Sierra Leone to conduct these MOOC classes? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education