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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Reddit to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants manage low motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better comprehend these important new open education ventures. Public servants want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this developing demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This inspiring new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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