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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which deals with issues regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education technology have empowered students all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These online MOOC courses are free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that online education institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers make sure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational initiatives. Scholars want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this increasing demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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