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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in online education enable learners all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are several issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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