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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics relevant to open education resources and massively open online courses. Brand new evolvements in online education have empowered people all around the world to take part in courses online. These massive open courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to now that elearning technology is developing so quickly. How can participants be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC classes is passable? How can stakeholders make sure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like Grenada to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants handle inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a demand to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better comprehend the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Students want to understand how MOOCs can be enhanced. To satisfy this expanding demand for facts the sensational new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This scholarly new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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