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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which considers issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses. New advances in elearning technology are providing the means for humans all over the world to take courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online learning institutions are having to consider today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can organizations ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other participants need to gain a better understanding of these fascinating new open educational experiments. Public servants want to know how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this increasing need for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This definitive new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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