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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in digital education technology are providing the means for students in nations all around the world to take online classes. MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because technology-enhanced learning is developing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Ireland to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can organizations manage problems like inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing need to gain a better understanding of how these MOOCs are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Everybody wants to better understand how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This thrilling new book also considers the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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