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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in distance learning technology have provided the means for humans in all parts of the world to take courses online. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that elearning technology organizations have to struggle with more than ever because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can educators assure that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can we ensure that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other participants would like to understand these exciting new open education experiments. Trainers want to better understand how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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