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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest developments in online learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions have to consider today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can institutions certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Finland to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing demand for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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