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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Modern improvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for humans all over the world to participate in online classes. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants would like to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Universities want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this desideratum for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource topics. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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