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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which investigates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Vatican City to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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