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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores subjects related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are customarily 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 a lot of topics that elearning technology organizations must deal with today because online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the quality control for these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like New Caledonia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants want to better grasp these significant new open educational undertakings. Researchers want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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