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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning have empowered people all around the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are having to deal with in 2015 because distance learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is passable? How can we guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like University of California, San Francisco to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education ventures. Public servants want to know how these MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource topics. This amazing new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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