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MOOCs and Open Education is a book which considers subjects related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest evolvements in elearning are enabling students in every nation on earth to take courses 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. MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can participants certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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