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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning have provided the means for humans in nations all aver the world to take courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning organizations are having to consider now that learning technology is developing so quickly. How can institutions guarantee that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is satisfactory? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Universities want to perceive how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desire for information MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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