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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers topics having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in online education technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in online classes. Massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As online learning becomes more abundant there is a developing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This dramatic new book also reviews the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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