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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent improvements in distance learning technology have enabled humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions make sure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Guinea to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Educators want to gain an understanding of how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This interesting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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