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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which examines topics pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest changes in electronic educational technology are empowering humans in every nation on earth to be participants in classes 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 open courses are mostly free for learners but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that e-learning organizations are dealing with now that online education technology is advancing so fast. How can we be assured that the quality of these MOOCs is passable? How can stakeholders ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business models are being used by organizations like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are optimal? How can we deal with inadequate learner motivation and high student attrition?

As digital educational technology becomes more widespread there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and many other stakeholders want to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Trainers want to gain an understanding of how massively open online courses can be made better. In response to this developing desideratum for data the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational resource topics. This new book also considers the controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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