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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to take courses online. MOOCs are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can we ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massive open online courses? How can organizations deal with poor student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desire for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This definitive new book also explores the major controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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