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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). The latest improvements in online education technology have enabled people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning technology institutions are struggling with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can stakeholders certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by institutions like iversity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this desideratum for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education resource issues. This dramatic new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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