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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning technology are providing the means for students all around the world to take courses online. These MOOCs are typically 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 numerous topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Nicaragua to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp these exciting new open educational endeavours. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this need for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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