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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online learning technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are generally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education institutions have to deal with today because learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can educators assure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can institutions make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to grasp how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for knowledge the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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