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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in electronic educational technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to be participants in online classes. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Andorra to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators manage poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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