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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern advancements in elearning technology enable students all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants need to be more aware of the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This sensational new book also investigates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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