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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which describes subjects pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new advancements in online education technology have enabled people all over the world to participate in online courses. These online MOOCs are usually free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of topics that e-learning technology institutions are having to deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is improving so rapidly. How can participants ensure that the quality of teaching provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can participants certify that teachers are properly credentialed to teach massive open online courses? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Saudi Arabia to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and original assessment strategies are in use today? How can institutions deal with the problems of low learner motivation and high learner attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a developing necessity to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Researchers and many other stakeholders want to better comprehend the outcomes of these interesting new open education experiments. Professors want to better understand how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this crescive need for data the authoritative new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education resource subjects. This authoritative new book also describes the most important controversies associated with these online MOOCs and open education resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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