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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic education technology are providing the means for learners all around the world to take online courses. These massive open courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can teachers be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these promising new open education initiatives. Educators want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This interesting new book also studies the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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