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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic education technology are empowering students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so quickly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle problems like poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these important new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To meet this demand for information MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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