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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which examines subjects relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning are enabling humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free 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 topics that elearning institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to understand these important new open education experiments. People want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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