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MOOCs and Open Education is a book that reviews issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in e-learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take classes online. These massive open online courses are typically free but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To respond to this developing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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