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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses topics pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning have enabled humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that distance learning organizations have to struggle with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can participants guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to gain a better understanding of how MOOC classes are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To respond to this demand for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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