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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in e-learning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Kentucky to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also addresses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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