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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by organizations like United States to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a growing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders would like to better perceive these open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this growing desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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