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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book which talks about subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent changes in digital education technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to participate in online classes. These online MOOC courses are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing necessity to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Academics want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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