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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in elearning have provided the means for people all over the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more available there is a growing desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better grasp these important new open education endeavours. People want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also examines the controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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