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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Brand new developments in online education enable people all over the world to participate in online courses. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of these MOOC courses is good? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we manage problems like inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also addresses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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