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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects having to do with open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in elearning have provided the means for people all around the world to take part in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that distance learning institutions are dealing with today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What business models are being used by organizations like Chile to conduct these massive open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other participants need to be more aware of these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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