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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which analyzes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning are providing the means for people all over the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are almost always free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that e-learning organizations have to deal with today because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders be assured that the instruction provided by these MOOC courses is passable? How can students certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Coursera to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital learning becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to grasp how MOOC courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these compelling new open educational experiments. Academics want to comprehend how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This interesting new book also considers the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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