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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in elearning have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. This MOOCs book also documents active learning solutions that can help motivate students to engage in more productive learning experiences. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can educators be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Russia to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education undertakings. Lecturers want to know how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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