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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics having to do with open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New gains in e-learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic educational technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desire to perceive how MOOC courses are being conducted. Scientists and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational experiments. Universities want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be made better. To meet this expanding desire for facts the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This new book also researches the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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