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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the education provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of Michigan to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also reviews the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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