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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in elearning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that distance learning organizations are considering today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle poor student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these open education experiments. Scholars want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. Online assessments for MOOCs can be difficult to conduct effectively and reliably. To satisfy this demand for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also examines the most important controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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