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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in learning technology are empowering people all around the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we make sure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also describes the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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