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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in elearning have enabled students all over the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are commonly free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that learning technology organizations must deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can participants ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is passable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Brazil to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding desire to better understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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