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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which addresses issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in distance learning have empowered students in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions have to consider in 2015 because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can organizations certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Suriname to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants manage problems like poor student motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a developing demand to understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other participants want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. People want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive demand for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This gripping new book also considers the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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