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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent advancements in distance learning have empowered people in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open online courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can participants assure that the quality of these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders certify that teachers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a developing desire to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these fascinating new open educational initiatives. Public servants want to grasp how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for information the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education topics. This book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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