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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are empowering students in every nation on earth to take courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like openHPI to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better understand these compelling new open education experiments. Corporations want to understand how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education issues. This interesting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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