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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in online education are empowering people all around the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC classes are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Mexico to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other stakeholders want to understand these significant new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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