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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern changes in online education have enabled people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Lecturers want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This book also analyzes the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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