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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning technology have provided the means for learners all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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