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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies issues relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in distance learning technology have empowered humans all over the world to take classes online. Massively open online courses are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a expanding necessity to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and numerous other participants would like to gain a better understanding of these interesting new open education ventures. Intellectuals want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for facts the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource subjects. This sensational new book also discusses the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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