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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new changes in online education are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are having to deal with today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udemy to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a necessity to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to understand the outcomes of these intriguing new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to perceive how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this growing desire for details MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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