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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics relating to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in elearning enable people all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning technology institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can students guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these open educational endeavours. Lecturers want to understand how MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This thrilling new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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