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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning are providing the means for students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOCs are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is all right? How can participants certify that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more available there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOCs are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this expanding demand for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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