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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in e-learning enable people in all parts of the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are considering now that learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can participants make sure that the quality of these massively open online courses is good? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Sri Lanka to conduct these MOOC courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other stakeholders need to better understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive desire for facts MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with these massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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