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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to take courses online. These online MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can we certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with poor learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these MOOCs are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this growing desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This scholarly new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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