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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in elearning have provided the means for people in every nation on earth to take online courses. Massive open online courses are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Public servants want to grasp how these massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This authoritative new book also researches the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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