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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent improvements in electronic educational technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in courses online. These massive open courses are almost always free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online education institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the education provided by these massive open online courses is passable? How can students be assured that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Vatican City to conduct these massively open online courses? How can we handle issues like poor motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing necessity to comprehend how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this crescive demand for knowledge the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This sensational new book also studies the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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