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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that discusses subjects pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOC). New advances in elearning enable learners all around the world to take courses online. MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the schooling provided by these massive open online courses is satisfactory? How can students guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach courses online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these MOOC courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are in use today? How can we deal with the issues of low learner motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more widespread there is a expanding desire to grasp how these MOOCs are being conducted. Scientists and many other stakeholders want to better grasp the outcomes of these intriguing new open educational endeavours. Universities want to better understand how these massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this developing desideratum for details the gripping new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of MOOC courses and other open educational issues. This gripping new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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