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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in learning technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students 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 many subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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