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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes subjects having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning technology are enabling humans in all parts of the world to participate in courses online. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality control for these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend these interesting new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how MOOCs can be improved. To respond to this increasing demand for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also analyzes the key controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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