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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which studies topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New gains in digital education technology are making it possible for people all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. These MOOC classes are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with today because elearning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we be assured that the teaching provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing desire to gain more knowledge about how MOOC classes are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Academics and numerous other participants would like to understand the outcomes of these new open educational experiments. Students want to grasp how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this crescive need for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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