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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent changes in online learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to participate in courses online. These massive open online courses are typically free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few topics that distance learning organizations must deal with more than ever because elearning technology is developing so fast. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can participants guarantee that the teaching provided by these massively open online courses is respectable? How can students guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC courses? What business models are being used by organizations like Rwaq to conduct these MOOCs? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As digital elearning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to understand these significant new open educational experiments. Everyone wants to better understand how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this developing desideratum for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open education issues. This book also examines the controversies associated with these MOOC classes and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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