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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest advances in online education technology have made it possible for people all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions certify that the education provided by these MOOC classes is respectable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this increasing desire for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also examines the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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