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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which examines topics regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in elearning are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive open courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that distance learning organizations must deal with today because online education technology is developing so fast. How can educators be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Yale University to conduct these MOOC courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can educators handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more prolific there is a expanding desire to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these compelling new open educational experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this crescive desire for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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