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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in elearning have enabled people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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