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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning have enabled learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like FutureLearn to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about these open education endeavours. Corporations want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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