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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in electronic educational technology enable students in every nation on earth to take online classes. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Infrastructure, marketing, pedagogy, and assessment are some of the areas where questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education persist. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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