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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects pertaining to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Recent advances in distance learning technology have enabled people in nations all aver the world to be participants in classes via the Internet. MOOC courses are almost always free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online learning technology organizations have to consider today because learning technology is developing so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach online? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford University to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can participants deal with low motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more procurable there is a developing desire to understand how MOOC classes are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these fascinating new open education experiments. Instructors want to know how massively open online courses can be improved. To meet this increasing desideratum for data the book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of MOOCs and other open educational subjects. This new book also addresses the most important controversies associated with these massive open courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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