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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies topics regarding open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in online education have provided the means for people all around the world to take classes online. These massively open online courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to consider now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can organizations certify that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Belarus to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational undertakings. Corporations want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also deals with the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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