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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues relating to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in technology-enhanced learning have enabled humans all over the world to take part in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology institutions have to deal with now that learning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions be assured that the education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can organizations guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Tuvalu to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more available there is a developing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Universities and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp these promising new open educational undertakings. Universities want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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