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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in e-learning technology enable humans all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that elearning organizations must deal with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can teachers be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can institutions certify that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Myanmar (Burma) to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can teachers deal with the issues of inadequate learner motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these exciting new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational issues. This definitive new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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