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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers topics regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern advances in elearning technology enable people all over the world to take courses via the Internet. These MOOCs are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that technology-enhanced learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so fast. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can students guarantee that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online MOOC classes? What different business models are being used by organizations like Malta to conduct these MOOCs? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As technology-enhanced learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. The open educational resources movement was the inspiration for the first MOOCs. Corporations and lots of other participants need to better comprehend these open education experiments. Intellectuals want to know how these MOOC courses can be made better. To handle this crescive desire for information the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This scholarly new book also discusses the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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