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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning enable people all over the world to take classes online. These MOOC classes are usually free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to today because distance learning technology is developing so fast. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOCs is decent? How can organizations make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Cuba to conduct these MOOC courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants want to understand these promising new open educational experiments. Scholars want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also talks about the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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