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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online education have empowered students in all parts of the world to take online courses. These massive open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions certify that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this growing demand for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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