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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to comprehend how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Researchers want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing need for knowledge the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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