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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New changes in digital education technology have empowered people all around the world to participate in online courses. These massive online courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of topics that technology-enhanced learning organizations are considering more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can educators assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Pakistan to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Teachers and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Academics want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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