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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues relating to open education resources and massively open online courses. Recent advances in elearning technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to participate in classes via the Internet. Massively open online courses are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that learning technology institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so quickly. How can teachers certify that the quality of these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can we be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Antigua and Barbuda to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more prolific there is a increasing need to grasp how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other participants need to understand these important new open education experiments. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this growing demand for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education issues. This new book also reviews the key controversies associated with MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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