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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which investigates issues relating to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New improvements in digital education technology are empowering people in all parts of the world to be participants in online courses. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. Massively open online courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to struggle with more than ever because learning technology is advancing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these MOOC classes is good? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like China, Republic of (Taiwan) to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can teachers get a handle on inadequate motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants would like to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Academics want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To satisfy this developing desire for facts the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education subjects. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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