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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in digital education technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. Massive open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can we make sure that the quality of these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This book also researches the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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