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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in distance learning are empowering students all over the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massive open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Academics want to know how MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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