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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in e-learning are providing the means for humans all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that elearning technology organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can educators assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is adequate? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these new open education experiments. People want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing need for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also talks about the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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