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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in electronic education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes online. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we ensure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders handle inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Instructors want to grasp how these MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This book also explores the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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