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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in online education are enabling learners in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle issues like inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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