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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in electronic education technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that learning technology institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can stakeholders ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants desire to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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