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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in elearning technology are empowering learners all around the world to participate in online courses. Massively open online courses are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so fast. How can we guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about these fascinating new open education experiments. Scholars want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this demand for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This gripping new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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