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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent developments in elearning technology are enabling students in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education institutions are dealing with in 2015 because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants want to better understand these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This new book also investigates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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