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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest evolvements in elearning are empowering humans in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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