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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Brand new advances in elearning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are several issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because distance learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Vanderbilt University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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