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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern evolvements in elearning are providing the means for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to today because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Rwaq to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with low student motivation and high attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open educational endeavours. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this need for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This thrilling new book also explores the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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