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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have empowered people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Case Western Reserve University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education undertakings. Public servants want to better understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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