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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in e-learning are enabling people in all parts of the world to take online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations are considering more than ever because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers ensure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC courses is respectable? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by organizations like Switzerland to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can we manage poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and many other participants would like to better understand these open education experiments. Students want to perceive how these MOOCs can be made better. To handle this developing desideratum for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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