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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in electronic educational technology enable people all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders need to better understand these compelling new open educational experiments. Scholars want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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