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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about subjects having to do with open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. New developments in elearning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can institutions certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Ecuador to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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