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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in e-learning enable people all around the world to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that learning technology institutions have to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of teaching provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these MOOC courses? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the problems of low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education endeavours. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this crescive desire for information the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This interesting new book also researches the controversies associated with MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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