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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in online education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to consider more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants would like to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This exciting new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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