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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in e-learning technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. These MOOC classes are mostly 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 numerous subjects that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This exciting new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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