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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in e-learning are empowering learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology organizations have to consider today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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