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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Northwestern University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Public servants want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive demand for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the key 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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