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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new advancements in electronic education technology are enabling students in all parts of the world to be participants in 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 MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators make sure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants would like to better perceive these significant new open education undertakings. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This interesting new book also deals with the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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