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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New gains in distance learning technology are empowering students all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online learning organizations are having to consider today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can we make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Sri Lanka to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle problems like low motivation and high learner attrition?

As elearning becomes more abundant there is a expanding need to understand how MOOC courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Scientists and lots of other participants desire to better perceive these promising new open educational endeavours. Everybody wants to comprehend how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for knowledge the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOC classes and other open education resource topics. This new book also reviews the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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