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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern gains in digital education technology have provided the means for students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations are considering more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. This collected edition describes many different types of MOOC options and the full range of business plans related to MOOCs. How can participants guarantee that the quality of these MOOCs is respectable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Massachusetts Institute of Technology to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As e-learning becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these significant new open education experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this need for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource subjects. This interesting new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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