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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education technology enable people all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can learners ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Bermuda to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desideratum to be aware of how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these fascinating new open education undertakings. Universities want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive need for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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