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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advances in elearning are enabling learners in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massively open online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that elearning organizations are having to attend to today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can organizations assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Macau to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Instructors want to perceive how massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This exciting new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

Massively Open Online Courses (moocs)