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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new developments in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are typically free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that elearning technology institutions are having to consider more than ever because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can teachers assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is adequate? How can students be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Suriname to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a need to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants would like to better perceive these significant new open educational experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for details the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education resource topics. This book also investigates the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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