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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New gains in elearning are empowering people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to struggle with now that online education technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Stanford Online to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing desideratum for information the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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