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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that addresses issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in online education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can we handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders need to understand these open educational experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this developing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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