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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding demand to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To meet this need for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education issues. This inspiring new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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