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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that examines topics having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). The latest gains in electronic education technology have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning institutions are dealing with today because elearning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the quality of these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Equatorial Guinea to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants desire to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing demand for information the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education subjects. This new book also researches the 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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