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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which describes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in technology-enhanced learning have enabled people all over the world to take courses online. MOOCs are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations must deal with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants certify that the quality control for these MOOCs is adequate? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Laos to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this growing demand for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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