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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning technology are making it possible for learners all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are normally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource subjects. This exciting new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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