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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New changes in electronic educational technology enable people in all parts of the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online education organizations are dealing with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Reunion to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This inspiring new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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