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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in elearning technology are enabling humans all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Washington to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a growing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to understand these important new open educational experiments. Scientists want to understand how these MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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