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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which researches topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in e-learning technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take part in online classes. These MOOCs are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to struggle with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders be assured that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing need to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing desire for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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