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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects relevant to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest improvements in electronic educational technology enable students in nations all around the world to participate in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are customarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that online education organizations are dealing with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can we be assured that the training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Jamaica to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and many other participants need to better grasp the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this increasing desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This new book also analyzes the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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