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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New advancements in digital education technology make it possible for people in nations all around the world to take online courses. These MOOC classes are normally free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of subjects that online education institutions have to struggle with more than ever because e-learning technology is improving so swiftly. MOOCs support interactions between students and professors with user forums and other forms of online communities. How can institutions assure that the quality control for these MOOC courses is decent? How can stakeholders make sure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Stanford Online to conduct these massive open online courses? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can participants handle poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online education technology becomes more prolific there is a developing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other participants desire to better understand the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Corporations want to perceive how these massively open online courses can be improved. To satisfy this expanding demand for data the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also investigates the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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