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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education have enabled people all over the world to take part in online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with in 2015 because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Northwestern University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This amazing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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