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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are numerous issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with in 2015 because e-learning technology is advancing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can participants ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor student motivation and high attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to better grasp these important new open education initiatives. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing demand for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This dramatic new book also examines the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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