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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online learning are empowering students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations have to struggle with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Minnesota to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other participants need to better grasp these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desideratum for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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