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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in online education technology are making it possible for humans in nations all around the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desideratum to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these important new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also examines the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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