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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in technology-enhanced learning are making it possible for learners all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can institutions certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this developing demand for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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