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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students 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 quite a few topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To handle this developing demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also addresses the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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