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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in distance learning technology enable people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions are considering now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these MOOC courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online education becomes more available there is a desire to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this growing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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