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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online learning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations are having to struggle with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like The University of Chicago to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? Interaction, feedback and online support are the most important things that help students succeed in MOOC courses. How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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