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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online education have enabled humans in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of topics that online education institutions are having to deal with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so quickly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this developing need for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Educational Resources