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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in e-learning have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are commonly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also describes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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