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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in distance learning have made it possible for students all over the world to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can we guarantee that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like MOOEC to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we deal with the issues of poor motivation and high attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Universities and lots of other participants need to better comprehend the outcomes of these important new open educational endeavours. Public servants want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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