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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that describes topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in e-learning enable students all around the world to participate in online courses. These MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of subjects that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is improving so fast. How can participants be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As learning technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Scholars want to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education subjects. This thrilling new book also reviews the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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