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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in technology-enhanced learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. These massive online courses are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing desire to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the 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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