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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent developments in elearning technology are empowering people all around the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this expanding desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This gripping new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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