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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in distance learning technology are empowering people in nations all around the world to take part in courses online. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that e-learning organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like University of California, San Diego to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants need to be more aware of these significant new open educational endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also articulates the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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