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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in online learning have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants guarantee that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Vanuatu to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we manage problems like low learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing demand to perceive how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants desire to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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