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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in digital education technology have enabled people in nations all around the world to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that learning technology institutions are having to struggle with now that technology-enhanced learning is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is respectable? How can institutions be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business models are being used by organizations like Eliademy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desire to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these new open education experiments. Public servants want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desideratum for knowledge the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This intriguing new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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