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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in electronic educational technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about these significant new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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