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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that reviews issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New gains in e-learning technology have empowered students in all parts of the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. Massively open online courses are normally free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that e-learning organizations have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can educators ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can students ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Sweden to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can stakeholders manage problems like poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more widespread there is a demand to better understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants desire to gain a better understanding of the outcomes of these important new open educational ventures. People want to know how these massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this increasing demand for information the thrilling new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This interesting new book also discusses the most important controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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