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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. New advancements in online education are providing the means for humans all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to consider now that elearning technology is improving so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Georgia Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As online education technology becomes more widespread there is a necessity to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Scholars want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive demand for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also analyzes the controversies associated with MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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