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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New changes in online education technology are enabling humans all around the world to take part in classes online. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning technology organizations have to struggle with today because technology-enhanced learning is improving so fast. How can organizations ensure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can learners be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Johns Hopkins University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can teachers deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desideratum to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and many other participants want to understand these exciting new open education initiatives. Corporations want to perceive how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive need for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This book also examines the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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