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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new gains in learning technology enable humans all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of issues that elearning institutions are considering today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to understand these exciting new open education endeavours. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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