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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Students want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also explores the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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