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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern gains in e-learning have made it possible for people all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can participants make sure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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