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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning technology enable students all around the world to take online courses. This MOOC book describes methods for making lectures more interesting and getting students more engaged in learning. These MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Educators want to grasp how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive demand for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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