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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advances in digital education technology are making it possible for humans in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can we assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Bhutan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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