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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern developments in online education are empowering people all around the world to take part 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 MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Guernsey to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of these important new open education experiments. Trainers want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This gripping new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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