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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advancements in electronic educational technology are empowering learners all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses are free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning organizations are having to attend to now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scientists want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this developing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education issues. This authoritative new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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