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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses issues regarding open education resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New advances in online education technology are providing the means for people all over the world to take classes via the Internet. These online MOOCs are almost always free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are many topics that distance learning institutions must deal with now that e-learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can stakeholders ensure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? MOOCs are a form of distance education. How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed for teaching online? What strategies are being used by institutions like United Arab Emirates to conduct these MOOCs? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are optimal? How can teachers deal with poor motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more prolific there is a growing need to comprehend how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Instructors and lots of other stakeholders want to better grasp these open educational experiments. Intellectuals want to gain an understanding of how these massive open online courses can be improved. To meet this crescive demand for details the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This scholarly new book also reviews the major controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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