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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent gains in e-learning are enabling learners in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of subjects that e-learning organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants ensure that the quality of these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can students certify that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these significant new open education initiatives. Professors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing desire for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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