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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in e-learning technology are empowering people in nations all aver the world to take part in courses online. Massive open online courses are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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