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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in electronic educational technology are providing the means for students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a need to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders need to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how MOOC courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This intriguing new book also considers the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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