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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning technology have empowered students in every nation on earth to take online courses. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that e-learning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Miriada X to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and lots of other participants would like to understand these intriguing new open education experiments. Educators want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This interesting new book also examines the key controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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