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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in electronic educational technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can stakeholders guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This intriguing new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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