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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues related to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are numerous issues that learning technology institutions must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can we ensure that the quality of these MOOCs is decent? How can learners guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Reddit to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding need to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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