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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that considers subjects relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). The latest advancements in elearning technology have enabled students in every nation on earth to take classes via the Internet. Massive open online courses (MOOCs) and similar experiments with open education are allowing millions of self-directed online learners around the globe to learn from well-known professors. MOOCs are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning institutions must deal with now that elearning technology is advancing so swiftly. How can stakeholders guarantee that the training provided by these massive open online courses is good? How can participants assure that teachers are properly credentialed to teach MOOC classes? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Dominica to conduct these MOOC classes? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can institutions deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more abundant there is a growing necessity to understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Corporations and lots of other stakeholders want to gain a better understanding of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this demand for details the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource issues. This stimulating new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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