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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent evolvements in online education have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. MOOCs are usually free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are dozens of new technologies emerging each year that can be used for teaching and learning. There are quite a few topics that elearning technology institutions are dealing with now that online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can organizations be assured that the quality of training provided by these massively open online courses is adequate? How can learners be assured that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants handle issues like low student motivation and high learner attrition?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and numerous other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding demand for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also studies the key controversies associated with MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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