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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Google+ to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these new open education undertakings. Scientists want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also studies the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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