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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. New evolvements in online education technology have empowered people in all parts of the world to take classes via the Internet. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are quite a few issues that technology-enhanced learning institutions are having to consider now that learning technology is developing so fast. How can we ensure that the education provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can students certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by institutions like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions get a handle on low learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing desire to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be enhanced. To handle this demand for knowledge the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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