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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in online learning are enabling students in all parts of the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johnston Atoll to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better grasp these promising new open educational ventures. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desire for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This book also addresses 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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