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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers issues related to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advances in learning technology have made it possible for students all around the world to take part in classes via the Internet. These MOOCs are customarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations must deal with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is acceptable? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Singapore to conduct these MOOCs? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can organizations manage problems like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to perceive how massively open online courses are being conducted. Students and numerous other stakeholders need to be more aware of the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to know how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this increasing demand for data the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education issues. This interesting new book also examines the controversies associated with MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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