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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning enable students in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions have to consider now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. How can organizations be assured that the training provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing necessity to be aware of how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also researches the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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