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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers topics relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning are enabling people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Instructors want to know how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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