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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that considers subjects regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in technology-enhanced learning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that learning technology institutions are considering today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like British Indian Ocean Territory to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this developing need for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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