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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in elearning technology make it possible for learners in nations all aver the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to consider more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants be assured that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like low learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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