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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in distance learning have empowered people all over the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are usually free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified for online teaching? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sri Lanka to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these compelling new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this increasing demand for facts the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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