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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning have enabled people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Tuvalu to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this growing desire for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources