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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest gains in digital education technology are making it possible for students all over the world to take part in classes online. MOOCs are commonly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are having to struggle with today because elearning technology is developing so quickly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can organizations certify that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can learners ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Algeria to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders get a handle on poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Universities and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these significant new open educational undertakings. Scientists want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To meet this crescive demand for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This scholarly new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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