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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that researches subjects having to do with open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new advances in online education technology are providing the means for humans all around the world to take courses online. These MOOC courses are mostly free for learners but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that online learning technology organizations are having to attend to more than ever because online learning technology is improving so quickly. How can we assure that the quality control for these massive open online courses is good? How can we guarantee that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Peer to Peer University to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can stakeholders deal with the problems of poor learner motivation and high student dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more widespread there is a demand to comprehend how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and numerous other participants would like to better understand the outcomes of these significant new open educational experiments. Professors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes can be made better. In response to this developing desire for information the stimulating new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational topics. This stimulating new book also considers the most important controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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