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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to be participants in classes online. These massive online courses are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous topics that online learning institutions are having to deal with now that online education technology is improving so fast. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can stakeholders assure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Coursera to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a expanding desire to be aware of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and lots of other participants need to gain more knowledge about these significant new open education experiments. Academics want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this growing desideratum for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource issues. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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