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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics related to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advances in e-learning technology are empowering learners all over the world to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can institutions certify that the quality of training provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business models are being used by institutions like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As online education becomes more procurable there is a increasing necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Students and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these promising new open education endeavours. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this desideratum for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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