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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that researches issues having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in electronic education technology are making it possible for learners in all parts of the world to take part in online courses. MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. It is a challenge to motivate and engage students in online environments. There are a variety of topics that elearning organizations are having to deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can organizations assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can participants guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Colombia to conduct these MOOC classes? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to understand how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about these new open educational experiments. Universities want to perceive how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this increasing demand for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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