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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in distance learning are enabling students all over the world to take part in online classes. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we certify that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education ventures. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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