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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in electronic education technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Cornell University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing necessity to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these important new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this increasing need for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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