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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses. Recent advances in online education technology have empowered people in every nation on earth to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are commonly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that online learning technology institutions are having to struggle with today because online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can institutions guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOC classes? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to understand how these MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other stakeholders would like to understand these new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also researches the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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