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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education have provided the means for learners all over the world to take online courses. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC classes is tolerable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we handle problems like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more available there is a need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Public servants want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding desideratum for data the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This intriguing new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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