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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning technology enable students in every nation on earth to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a variety of issues that e-learning organizations have to consider now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Educators want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desire for facts the authoritative 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 stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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