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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). New improvements in e-learning have empowered humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These massive open online courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that online education institutions are struggling with now that online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can participants make sure that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders assure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by institutions like edX to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a developing necessity to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other stakeholders would like to be more aware of the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open educational resource topics. This inspiring new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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