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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that deals with topics pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in elearning technology have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider in 2015 because learning technology is improving so fast. How can we assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mongolia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how MOOC courses can be improved. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. In response to this growing need for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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