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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in elearning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational experiments. Educators want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This scholarly new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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