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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New evolvements in online learning have provided the means for learners all around the world to be participants in courses online. These massively open online courses are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that elearning institutions are struggling with today because technology-enhanced learning is advancing so rapidly. How can institutions certify that the training provided by these MOOC classes is tolerable? How can organizations ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business models are being used by institutions like Stanford University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and innovative assessment strategies are in use today? How can we handle poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital education technology becomes more procurable there is a necessity to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Scholars and numerous other stakeholders would like to gain more knowledge about these open education experiments. Academics want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive desideratum for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational subjects. This stimulating new book also studies the most important controversies associated with these massive online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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