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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in electronic education technology are making it possible for people in all parts of the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are numerous issues that online education organizations are dealing with in 2015 because online education technology is improving so fast. How can teachers be assured that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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