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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants manage problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this developing need for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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