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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning are empowering people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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