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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which addresses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent advancements in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations have to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is passable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What strategies are being used by organizations like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? How can educators get a handle on poor learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to better perceive these new open education experiments. Scientists want to perceive how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This authoritative new book also addresses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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