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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in electronic educational technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like South Ossetia to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This gripping new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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