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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in online education have enabled students all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Reddit to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education ventures. Corporations want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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