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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in online education are providing the means for people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. MOOCs are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning institutions are dealing with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations certify that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we manage low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these interesting new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this developing need for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also articulates the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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