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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in electronic education technology are enabling humans all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like University of Colorado System to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better perceive these promising new open educational undertakings. Scholars want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also describes the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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