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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in courses online. MOOCs are generally free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like The Ohio State University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these exciting new open education undertakings. Trainers want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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