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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Brand new advancements in elearning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like UWashingtonX to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions manage poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other participants would like to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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