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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in electronic education technology make it possible for people in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning technology institutions have to deal with in 2015 because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Researchers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this growing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also talks about the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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