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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which articulates issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning technology make it possible for learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like United Kingdom to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This definitive new book also investigates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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