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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in electronic educational technology are enabling people all over the world to take part in courses online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is developing so fast. How can teachers be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is passable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and many other participants would like to be more aware of these intriguing new open education experiments. Everyone wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this demand for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This new book also articulates 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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