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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can organizations guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Argentina to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants desire to better comprehend these intriguing new open educational experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To respond to this growing need for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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