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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massively open online courses are customarily free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology organizations are struggling with today because learning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Mali to conduct these massive open online courses? How can participants manage low student motivation and high dropout rates?

As elearning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding necessity to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other participants want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding need for data the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also articulates the major controversies associated with massive open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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