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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in electronic educational technology are empowering people all around the world to take part in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Lesotho to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Professors and many other participants need to understand these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also articulates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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