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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues pertaining to open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Brand new improvements in online education have provided the means for students all around the world to take courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning technology institutions must deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What business models are being used by institutions like Samoa to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital educational technology becomes more procurable there is a need to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other participants desire to gain a better understanding of these intriguing new open education experiments. Teachers want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To handle this growing demand for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This stimulating new book also examines the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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