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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in electronic education technology are empowering people all over the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that elearning technology organizations have to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Icahn School of Medicine at Mount Sinai to conduct these MOOC classes? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these open educational undertakings. Academics want to perceive how MOOC courses can be improved. To meet this increasing demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This thrilling new book also discusses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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