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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning technology have enabled people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to better comprehend these fascinating new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to know how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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