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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that examines issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern developments in e-learning have empowered students all around the world to take courses online. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are a lot of issues that distance learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions make sure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations deal with the issues of low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more prolific there is a growing need to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders need to better perceive these intriguing new open education ventures. Professors want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also considers the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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