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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in online education have enabled students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that elearning institutions are having to attend to today because elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we ensure that the teaching provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can participants ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Florida to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a necessity to be aware of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to comprehend how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this expanding desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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