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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in e-learning are enabling people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are having to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so swiftly. How can institutions assure that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Canvas Network to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage issues like inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more available there is a need to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding desire for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This book also reviews the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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