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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that articulates issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in e-learning have enabled learners all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that distance learning institutions are having to attend to now that e-learning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can we guarantee that the quality of instruction provided by these massively open online courses is good? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What business models are being used by institutions like Relay Graduate School of Education to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with inadequate motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As digital e-learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing demand to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and numerous other participants want to better comprehend the outcomes of these new open educational endeavours. Researchers want to know how massive open online courses can be improved. To handle this crescive desideratum for information the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also describes the major controversies associated with these massive online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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