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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which explores issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning have provided the means for humans all around the world to take classes online. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more available there is a desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how MOOC courses can be improved. In response to this demand for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This gripping new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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