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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that analyzes topics related to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New improvements in elearning enable people in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. These online MOOC courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning organizations are having to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is decent? How can students make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more available there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these new open education initiatives. Corporations want to grasp how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for information the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education topics. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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