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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in distance learning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can we be assured that the instruction provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can learners guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other participants want to better grasp the outcomes of these open education undertakings. Academics want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this increasing desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This amazing new book also describes the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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