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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New gains in electronic education technology are empowering humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOCs are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to today because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these exciting new open education ventures. Corporations want to know how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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