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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in learning technology have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to struggle with now that blended learning technology is developing so fast. How can participants assure that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like edX to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing demand to grasp how massive open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to understand how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource issues. This dramatic new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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