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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which researches issues pertaining to open education resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Recent gains in elearning technology have made it possible for people in every nation on earth to participate in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that e-learning technology institutions have to deal with today because online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can participants assure that the schooling provided by these MOOC classes is acceptable? How can participants be assured that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business models are being used by organizations like Miriada X to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low student motivation and high attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other stakeholders would like to better perceive the outcomes of these important new open education experiments. Students want to understand how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To meet this expanding desideratum for data the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also explores the most important controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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