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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. The latest advances in digital education technology are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in classes online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online learning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can we be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is passable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like NovoEd to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to perceive how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Corporations and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about these compelling new open educational experiments. Completion rates for online MOOCs are far less than the completion rates for traditional courses. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be enhanced. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This book also addresses the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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