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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes subjects pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent improvements in online education make it possible for people all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These massive online courses are usually free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning technology institutions are considering today because e-learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can we make sure that the quality of schooling provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by organizations like OpenLearning to conduct these massively open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can participants handle low student motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to better understand how these massive open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders desire to better perceive these open educational experiments. Everybody wants to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This amazing new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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