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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects regarding open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic education technology have empowered students all over the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open educational undertakings. Everyone wants to know how these MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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