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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in online education are making it possible for students all around the world to be participants in online classes. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs can be made better. To respond to this crescive desire for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also studies the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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