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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates issues pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online learning technology enable humans in every nation on earth to be participants in courses online. Massively open online courses are typically free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions have to deal with today because e-learning technology is improving so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we handle problems like inadequate learner motivation and high dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Corporations want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this crescive need for facts MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource topics. This definitive new book also deals with the major controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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