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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massively open online courses. New evolvements in online education have enabled students in every nation on earth to participate in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are typically free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that e-learning technology organizations have to deal with today because elearning technology is improving so rapidly. How can educators certify that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing necessity to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these exciting new open education experiments. Public servants want to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing need for data the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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