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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in e-learning have made it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take classes via the Internet. 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. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology institutions are considering today because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like California Institute of Technology to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these exciting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this desideratum for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also researches the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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