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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning are providing the means for people all over the world to be participants in courses online. MOOC courses are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to struggle with now that elearning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can learners guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and numerous other participants desire to better grasp these important new open educational initiatives. Instructors want to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. In response to this growing demand for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open educational topics. This definitive new book also considers the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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