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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in e-learning technology have made it possible for people all over the world to take online classes. These massive online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to consider in 2015 because distance learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for data MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also examines the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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