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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in elearning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these open educational experiments. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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