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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that considers issues relating to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in online learning have empowered humans in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Brown University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders want to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive demand for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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