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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in distance learning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Ball State University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators handle poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this expanding demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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