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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes issues regarding open educational resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Modern advancements in online education are enabling students all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. MOOC classes are commonly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that distance learning institutions have to consider today because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can educators certify that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders ensure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Laos to conduct these massively open online courses? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more available there is a increasing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders desire to better comprehend these promising new open education experiments. Universities want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing need for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This intriguing new book also deals with the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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