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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning technology enable people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning institutions must deal with now that online education technology is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Professors want to perceive how MOOCs can be improved. To meet this developing desire for details the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This amazing new book also addresses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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