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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in elearning technology have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are struggling with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants ensure that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can organizations be assured that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Baker Island to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing desire to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Professors and many other participants would like to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this developing desideratum for facts the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This definitive new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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