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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in online classes. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and lots of other participants would like to understand these new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This thrilling new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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