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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in technology-enhanced learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in online courses. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can we handle low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Professors and many other participants desire to better comprehend these important new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these MOOC classes can be improved. To meet this crescive desideratum for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This stimulating new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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