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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education have made it possible for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are many issues that online learning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is good? How can students make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like France to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Researchers want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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