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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in e-learning are enabling learners all around the world to take part in classes 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. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that elearning institutions have to struggle with now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders make sure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is all right? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Baker Island to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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