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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education are enabling students in all parts of the world to take online classes. These massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can stakeholders guarantee that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Rice University to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to understand these open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this need for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also deals with the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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