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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online learning have enabled learners in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can organizations ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOCs is good? How can institutions guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these significant new open educational undertakings. Lecturers want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing demand for details the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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