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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new gains in online education technology have enabled learners in nations all around the world to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. These MOOCs are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that e-learning institutions are dealing with today because online education technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can participants be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What assessment strategies and original teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with the problems of poor motivation and high dropout rates?

As learning technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to understand the outcomes of these promising new open educational ventures. Everybody wants to perceive how these massively open online courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational subjects. This exciting new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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