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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in online learning technology have enabled people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like China, People's Republic of to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to understand these promising new open education ventures. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing need for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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