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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning have empowered students all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like University of Maryland, College Park to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Instructors and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education endeavours. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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