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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which investigates topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Scientists and many other participants want to better grasp these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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