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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education are enabling learners all over the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online education institutions are dealing with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mount Sinai School of Medicine to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This gripping new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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