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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology make it possible for students in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. This MOOCs book conveys practical strategies which can be easily incorporated into face-to-face, blended, and online classes. Massively open online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning organizations are considering now that elearning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators handle issues like low motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and lots of other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this desideratum for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also examines the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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