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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in e-learning technology are empowering students all over the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can we assure that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Chile to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle problems like inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Professors want to understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This dramatic new book also discusses the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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