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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers topics regarding open education resources and massive open online courses. Recent advancements in e-learning are enabling people all over the world to participate in courses online. These massive online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that elearning institutions are having to deal with today because e-learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can organizations be assured that the education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can institutions ensure that educators are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Academic Earth to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions deal with low student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a expanding need to perceive how MOOCs are being conducted. Academics and lots of other stakeholders want to better understand these interesting new open education experiments. Lecturers want to better understand how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this increasing demand for details the interesting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open educational resource issues. This exciting new book also discusses the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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