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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in e-learning have empowered students all around the world to take online courses. 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 massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning technology organizations are considering today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a desire to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these promising new open educational undertakings. Educators want to know how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also examines the 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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