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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers issues regarding open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). Recent gains in e-learning are making it possible for students all over the world to be participants in online courses. These massive open online courses are almost always free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning technology organizations are dealing with today because learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can teachers assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business models are being used by institutions like China, People's Republic of to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers manage inadequate motivation and high attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing necessity to perceive how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Educators and many other participants want to better perceive the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to better understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this developing desideratum for details the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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