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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which articulates topics relevant to open education resources (OER) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern changes in online education have provided the means for students in nations all around the world to be participants in online classes. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) allow an unlimited number of learners in a single class. These massive open courses are usually free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are many topics that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that online learning technology is developing so fast. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders certify that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by institutions like Guatemala to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can educators manage low learner motivation and high attrition?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to better understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other participants want to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these significant new open education experiments. Universities want to grasp how massively open online courses can be improved. To handle this expanding desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC classes and other open education topics. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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