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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning are enabling students all around the world to take online courses. MOOC classes are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is good? How can institutions assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by institutions like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to perceive how MOOC classes can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This sensational new book also analyzes the major 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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