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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews issues pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning are empowering people in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. MOOCs are open because they encourage open access via the Internet for all learners. These MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning technology organizations are dealing with more than ever because online learning technology is improving so fast. How can teachers assure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can institutions guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these new open educational endeavours. Students want to gain more knowledge about how MOOC courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This amazing new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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