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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects having to do with open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in elearning have provided the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes online. These online MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning technology institutions are having to attend to more than ever because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Peter I Island to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators deal with the problems of poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and numerous other participants want to be more aware of the outcomes of these open education experiments. Researchers want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this expanding need for data the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education topics. This exciting new book also examines the key controversies associated with MOOC classes and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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