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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in electronic educational technology enable students in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology institutions are dealing with now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Malaysia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and many other participants want to be more aware of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this growing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This amazing new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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