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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education technology have enabled learners all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Sri Lanka to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes 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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