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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in elearning are enabling students in every nation on earth to participate in classes online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that online education organizations have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more available there is a necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other participants need to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Teachers want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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