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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in e-learning technology have provided the means for learners in all parts of the world to be participants in online classes. These massive online courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because online learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can educators be assured that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like WizIQ to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage issues like low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a developing need to grasp how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other participants want to better grasp these intriguing new open education experiments. Scholars want to grasp how MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This thrilling new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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