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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in distance learning technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that online education organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we ensure that the quality of training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Belize to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of poor student motivation and high dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Academics want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also investigates the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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