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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning are making it possible for humans in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can we make sure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can teachers get a handle on low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders need to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also deals with the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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