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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in distance learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are having to deal with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Canvas Network to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important 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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