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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent developments in electronic education technology have made it possible for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that learning technology institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage issues like poor student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Universities want to grasp how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive need for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

MOOCS And Open Education