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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in e-learning have enabled students all around the world to be participants in courses online. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning organizations are struggling with now that e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also analyzes the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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