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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New changes in elearning technology are enabling students all over the world to take online classes. These massively open online courses are almost always free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions must deal with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of these MOOC classes is adequate? How can participants ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education endeavours. Everybody wants to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing need for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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