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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in distance learning enable students in nations all around the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations have to deal with more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Johnston Atoll to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This intriguing new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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