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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are many topics that elearning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Queen Maud Land to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Trainers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Instructors want to know how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To respond to this increasing need for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This interesting new book also describes the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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