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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses topics having to do with open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent advances in online learning are providing the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that technology-enhanced learning institutions are dealing with now that elearning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators certify that the instruction provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can students assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Algeria to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants get a handle on low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a expanding necessity to grasp how MOOCs are being conducted. Educators and many other participants desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how massive open online courses can be enhanced. To handle this demand for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also discusses the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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