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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a book that articulates topics relating to open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses. Recent developments in distance learning have provided the means for humans all over the world to take online classes. Massively open online courses are commonly free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because online learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can educators certify that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC courses is tolerable? How can we guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Saudi Arabia to conduct these MOOCs? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are optimal? How can participants deal with the problems of poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a desire to gain a better understanding of how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and lots of other stakeholders need to better perceive the outcomes of these exciting new open educational experiments. Scholars want to gain an understanding of how MOOC classes can be improved. To satisfy this growing need for details the book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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