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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these fascinating new open educational experiments. Corporations want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desideratum for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This inspiring new book also articulates the key controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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