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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online learning technology have empowered people all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that distance learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can we assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Barbados to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this expanding demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This sensational new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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