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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning are making it possible for people all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this increasing need for facts the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education issues. This sensational new book also explores the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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