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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning enable students in every nation on earth to take part in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. MOOCs are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are dealing with today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Everybody wants to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for data MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also explores the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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