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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews subjects regarding open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOCs). New evolvements in online education technology are providing the means for humans in all parts of the world to take online classes. These MOOC courses are normally free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous issues that distance learning organizations are having to consider now that elearning technology is advancing so fast. How can educators be assured that the instruction provided by these massively open online courses is decent? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach classes online? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Somaliland to conduct these massive open online courses? How can proper quality standards be consistently defined and maintained? What original teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations handle issues like poor motivation and high student attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more prolific there is a desire to understand how MOOCs are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about these promising new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this crescive need for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education subjects. This definitive new book also describes the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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