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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in online education have enabled people all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are commonly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education organizations are dealing with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants make sure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Academics want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this demand for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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