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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that investigates subjects relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. Brand new changes in online learning are empowering people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are considering today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like Eritrea to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing need to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and numerous other stakeholders want to be more aware of these promising new open education experiments. Researchers want to know how MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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