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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new developments in electronic education technology have provided the means for people all over the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because online education technology is advancing so fast. This book answers many questions about MOOCs and other forms of open education. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this crescive desire for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also explores the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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