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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Recent gains in online education technology are empowering learners all over the world to participate in courses via the Internet. MOOC courses are ordinarily free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. A MOOC is an online course which uses the Internet to provide open access and unlimited student participation. There are a lot of issues that online education institutions are having to deal with today because online education technology is advancing so fast. How can institutions assure that the teaching provided by these MOOC courses is good? How can we ensure that teachers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Udacity to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants manage issues like inadequate student motivation and high dropout rates?

As electronic education technology becomes more abundant there is a developing desideratum to grasp how massively open online courses are being conducted. Academics and many other stakeholders want to be more aware of these new open education endeavours. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desire for information the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these online MOOC courses and other open education topics. This intriguing new book also analyzes the controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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