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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest improvements in elearning technology are enabling students all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can we make sure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing need to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants desire to understand these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This new book also talks about the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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