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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern gains in distance learning enable people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that learning technology organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Khan Academy to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other participants would like to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education initiatives. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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