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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online education are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take part in classes online. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants want to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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