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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Brand new improvements in online education are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning technology organizations are having to attend to today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the training provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can organizations ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like One Month to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a expanding need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how MOOCs can be improved. To handle this increasing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This gripping new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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