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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in e-learning have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can participants assure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this growing desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This exciting new book also studies the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education