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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online education are empowering learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations make sure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Wesleyan University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to understand these significant new open educational undertakings. Instructors want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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