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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New advances in elearning technology are providing the means for people in nations all aver the world to participate in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to better comprehend these promising new open educational experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for information the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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