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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in online education have enabled people all over the world to take part in online classes. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are quite a few topics that online learning institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Mauritius to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Everyone wants to understand how these MOOC classes can be enhanced. To satisfy this growing desideratum for information the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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