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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which talks about topics pertaining to open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). Brand new gains in distance learning technology have enabled students all around the world to participate in online courses. MOOC courses are typically free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are numerous subjects that online learning organizations are having to attend to in 2015 because learning technology is improving so quickly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these MOOCs is good? How can participants guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach massive open online courses? What different strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental evaluation strategies are in use today? How can we handle issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a growing desire to better understand how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Universities and numerous other participants desire to better perceive these fascinating new open education experiments. Universities want to understand how massively open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this crescive desire for information the definitive new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of these massive online courses and other open educational issues. This intriguing new book also describes the controversies associated with massive open online courses and OERS. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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