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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with subjects regarding open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online education technology enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can teachers be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these promising new open educational experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This intriguing new book also researches the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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