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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new changes in elearning are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many issues that elearning organizations must deal with today because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle issues like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and numerous other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational ventures. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing desire for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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