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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. In response to this crescive demand for knowledge the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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