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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. The latest advances in distance learning technology have enabled people all over the world to be participants in online classes. 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. MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are considering now that e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like CaltechX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Students want to better understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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