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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning are enabling humans in nations all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Houston System to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scientists want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this crescive demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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