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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent evolvements in elearning technology have provided the means for people in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are many issues that learning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations handle issues like poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Lecturers want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also investigates the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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