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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that investigates subjects relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning make it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. MOOCs are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are a variety of issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open education experiments. Researchers want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this demand for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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