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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Recent developments in online education have empowered people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that e-learning technology organizations are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can organizations assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like British Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can we handle problems like low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a desire to be aware of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. People want to gain an understanding of how MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this increasing desideratum for details the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education issues. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with these online MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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