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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. The latest developments in e-learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality of these MOOC classes is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To meet this crescive demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also investigates the 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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