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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics relating to open educational resources and massively open online courses. New advancements in elearning technology are enabling people in nations all around the world to participate in online courses. Massive open online courses are almost always free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many issues that elearning technology institutions have to struggle with today because e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions ensure that the quality of instruction provided by these MOOC courses is all right? How can institutions be assured that teachers are properly credentialed to teach online classes? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Open2Study to conduct these MOOC classes? What assessment strategies and innovative teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more commonplace there is a developing need to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Universities and many other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open educational ventures. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be improved. To respond to this growing desire for facts the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also describes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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