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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes topics having to do with open education resources and massively open online courses. Modern evolvements in distance learning technology are enabling learners all over the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. Massively open online courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that elearning technology institutions are having to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can institutions be assured that the training provided by these MOOC courses is decent? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Georgia to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate learner motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders desire to better understand these promising new open educational ventures. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how massive open online courses can be made better. In response to this increasing desire for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This thrilling new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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