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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that studies issues related to open educational resources and massive open online courses. New developments in online learning technology have provided the means for people in all parts of the world to take part in online classes. MOOCs are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that e-learning institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is advancing so rapidly. How can stakeholders make sure that the education provided by these MOOCs is tolerable? How can organizations guarantee that educators are properly credentialed to teach classes online? What different strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these MOOCs? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants manage problems like inadequate motivation and high learner attrition?

As online learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a increasing desideratum to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and many other participants would like to better comprehend these significant new open educational experiments. Students want to know how massively open online courses can be enhanced. To respond to this crescive desire for details the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This authoritative new book also discusses the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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