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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Modern advances in elearning are enabling people all around the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can participants assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of North Carolina to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to better understand how MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this developing desideratum for knowledge MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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