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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new gains in electronic educational technology have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are normally free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that online learning organizations are considering today because online education technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Rice University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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