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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Researchers want to comprehend how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education topics. This book also articulates the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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