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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New changes in distance learning technology have empowered people in nations all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that online learning organizations are having to deal with now that learning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can institutions ensure that the quality of these MOOC classes is respectable? How can participants make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different strategies are being used by organizations like British Sovereign Base Areas to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with low motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants need to better understand these exciting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource issues. This authoritative new book also describes the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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