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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that talks about topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in elearning technology have enabled humans all over the world to take part in online classes. These massive open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are struggling with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. This scholarly volume offer guidelines for educators hoping to create a highly engaging MOOC-based learning environment. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with low motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more available there is a expanding need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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