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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new evolvements in online education have empowered students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. Massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations have to deal with now that elearning technology is developing so fast. How can educators guarantee that the quality of training provided by these MOOCs is satisfactory? How can institutions assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these exciting new open education endeavours. Scholars want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this developing desideratum for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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