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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New developments in digital education technology have enabled learners in all parts of the world to take part in courses via the Internet. These massive online courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology institutions have to deal with today because elearning technology is developing so fast. How can we assure that the training provided by these massively open online courses is acceptable? How can we assure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental teaching practices and evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other participants want to better understand these open education endeavours. Students want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this crescive desire for knowledge the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open educational resource issues. This book also investigates the major controversies associated with these MOOCs and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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