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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning enable students in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These MOOCs are mostly free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that elearning technology organizations are having to deal with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so quickly. How can educators guarantee that the quality of schooling provided by these MOOC classes is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Intellectuals and numerous other participants desire to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how these MOOCs can be made better. To satisfy this growing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open education topics. This inspiring new book also describes the key controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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