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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advances in e-learning have enabled learners all around the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations are dealing with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations certify that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Duke University to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to better comprehend these interesting new open education endeavours. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this need for information MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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