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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest evolvements in elearning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning organizations are struggling with now that distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Russia to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this growing desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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