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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that explores topics related to open educational resources and massively open online courses. Brand new advances in e-learning are empowering students in every nation on earth to be participants in classes via the Internet. These massive open online courses are free for students but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few subjects that online learning organizations are having to struggle with now that online learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders certify that the quality of education provided by these MOOC classes is decent? How can learners ensure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online classes? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like Norway to conduct these massive open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low student motivation and high student attrition?

As online education becomes more commonplace there is a developing demand to gain a better understanding of how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and lots of other stakeholders want to be more aware of the outcomes of these promising new open education experiments. Teachers want to know how massively open online courses can be made better. To meet this crescive desideratum for data the inspiring new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these MOOC courses and other open education issues. This dramatic new book also discusses the major controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open education resources (OERS). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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