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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning technology have empowered humans in nations all around the world to take online classes. These online MOOC courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Teachers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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