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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers subjects having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. New gains in distance learning technology enable humans in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are generally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOCs is good? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can educators manage problems like low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and lots of other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also articulates the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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