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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern improvements in distance learning are providing the means for people all around the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education institutions have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can organizations certify that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing demand for facts the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This interesting new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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