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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that analyzes topics relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in e-learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that e-learning organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

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