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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in electronic education technology have made it possible for students in nations all aver the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations have to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like LinkedIn to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a need to grasp how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This new book also deals with the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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