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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in e-learning technology enable people all around the world to take part in courses online. These massively open online courses are free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that learning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As e-learning becomes more widespread there is a growing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these interesting new open educational experiments. Instructors want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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