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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines issues having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in online learning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online learning organizations are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to grasp how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Educators and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these exciting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To meet this demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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