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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that describes issues pertaining to open education resources and massive open online courses. New developments in digital education technology are enabling people all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. 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 massive online courses are customarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of topics that online learning organizations have to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can organizations certify that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Jamaica to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are optimal? How can educators deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more abundant there is a growing demand to perceive how massive open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other participants need to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these open education ventures. Students want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be improved. To respond to this growing need for data the book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This authoritative new book also considers the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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