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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which studies issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in e-learning have empowered people all over the world to be participants in classes online. These MOOCs are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students make sure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ascension to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations deal with inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a desideratum to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how these massive open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for details MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also examines the key controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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