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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education are making it possible for people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are mostly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning organizations must deal with today because elearning technology is improving so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can we guarantee that the education provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can organizations be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive these exciting new open education initiatives. Everyone wants to grasp how MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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