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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New advancements in online learning are empowering people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kingman Reef to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a desideratum to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and many other participants desire to be more aware of these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. In response to this increasing desideratum for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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