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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advances in elearning are making it possible for people in nations all aver the world to take part in classes online. Massively open online courses are generally free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can participants assure that the quality control for these MOOCs is decent? How can learners be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers handle problems like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders need to better grasp these compelling new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also addresses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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