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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in digital education technology have enabled people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to comprehend how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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