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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses. Modern advances in electronic education technology enable people all around the world to take classes online. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that online learning organizations have to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can institutions ensure that the quality control for these massively open online courses is all right? How can we be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Scottsdale Community College to conduct these MOOC classes? What experimental teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can teachers deal with the problems of inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning becomes more widespread there is a growing necessity to gain a better understanding of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders want to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. People want to understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. To satisfy this growing desideratum for facts the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these online MOOCs and other open education resource issues. This interesting new book also considers the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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