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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in learning technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we certify that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to better understand these promising new open educational initiatives. Academics want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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