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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues related to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in electronic education technology have empowered learners in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning organizations are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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