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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New developments in electronic educational technology have empowered learners all over the world to take part in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of subjects that online education organizations are struggling with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Academics want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This interesting new book also researches 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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