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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. These MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions have to consider now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can organizations ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by institutions like Kyrgyzstan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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