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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning enable learners in all parts of the world to take online courses. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online education organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like Papua New Guinea to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also explores the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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