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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches subjects having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in online education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning technology institutions have to struggle with now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators certify that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Iceland to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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