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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in online education technology are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take classes online. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can institutions be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also explores the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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