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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern developments in online education technology are empowering people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. 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. These MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Columbia University to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to know how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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