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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in online education technology have enabled people all around the world to be participants in online courses. These massively open online courses are free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning organizations have to consider more than ever because online education technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders assure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like University of Minnesota to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding demand to perceive how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these open educational endeavours. Academics want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this expanding desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This stimulating new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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