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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in online learning technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are normally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders make sure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants want to be more aware of these interesting new open educational experiments. Students want to know how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This thrilling new book also investigates the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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