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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches topics related to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern improvements in electronic education technology enable humans in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations must deal with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOCs is adequate? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Honduras to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers manage issues like poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to understand these important new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this developing desire for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also studies the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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