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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which analyzes topics related to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning are enabling people all around the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Researchers want to understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding desideratum for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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