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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent evolvements in electronic education technology have made it possible for learners in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that learning technology organizations are having to consider today because online education technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? How can students make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Chad to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This dramatic new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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