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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores subjects regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advancements in e-learning technology are enabling humans in every nation on earth to take part in online courses. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that distance learning institutions have to consider now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can participants guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can participants be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like MenaVersity to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high student dropout rates?

As online learning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and lots of other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open education experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also researches the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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