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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in electronic education technology are empowering humans all over the world to take online classes. MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Curtis Institute of Music to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education initiatives. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this need for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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