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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses topics relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online education are making it possible for humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are 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 quite a few subjects that elearning technology organizations are dealing with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education undertakings. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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