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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in elearning enable humans all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations are considering today because online learning technology is advancing so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can organizations deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Students and many other participants desire to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to grasp how MOOCs can be enhanced. To handle this expanding need for data the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also researches the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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