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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in e-learning technology enable people all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that e-learning institutions have to deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can educators ensure that the quality control for these MOOCs is good? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to better perceive these intriguing new open educational ventures. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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