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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest gains in distance learning technology have empowered learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to consider more than ever because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these new open educational endeavours. Professors want to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This new book also studies the controversies associated with MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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