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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in elearning are making it possible for humans all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC classes are generally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that e-learning organizations are struggling with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is adequate? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Saint Lucia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this crescive need for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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