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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that reviews issues regarding open educational resources (OER) and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Recent improvements in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to take classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. Keeping thousands of students motivated and involved in a course is difficult for an instructor. There are a lot of topics that online education organizations are considering more than ever because online learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the training provided by these MOOCs is passable? How can we ensure that educators are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What business strategies are being used by organizations like Saudi Arabia to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders manage issues like low learner motivation and high attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more commonplace there is a growing demand to understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and numerous other stakeholders desire to understand these compelling new open educational initiatives. Teachers want to gain more knowledge about how these massively open online courses can be enhanced. In response to this expanding desideratum for knowledge the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massive open online courses and other open education topics. This authoritative new book also deals with 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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