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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that studies topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent changes in online education enable humans all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also talks about the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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