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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online education have made it possible for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Peru to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Instructors want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this crescive need for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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