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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates subjects pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning enable humans in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that elearning institutions are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can organizations be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders need to be more aware of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive need for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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