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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relating to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in elearning enable students in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These online MOOCs are almost always free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online education institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders ensure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Google+ to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can participants deal with the issues of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders would like to better understand these open education undertakings. Universities want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To handle this crescive need for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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