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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. Modern changes in online learning technology are empowering people all around the world to participate 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 online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can we guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of Wisconsin – Madison to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more abundant there is a demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also talks about the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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