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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which reviews topics relating to open educational resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). Modern evolvements in online education technology are enabling people all over the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOCs are ordinarily free but do not lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions are having to consider more than ever because online education technology is improving so quickly. How can teachers guarantee that the quality of training provided by these massive open online courses is tolerable? How can stakeholders assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online courses? What different business strategies are being used by institutions like University of Pennsylvania to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can teachers manage issues like poor learner motivation and high attrition?

As electronic education technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding need to gain a better understanding of how massive open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp these compelling new open education experiments. Researchers want to better understand how massive open online courses can be made better. To satisfy this increasing desideratum for details the amazing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these MOOCs and other open educational issues. This scholarly new book also considers the key controversies associated with massively open online courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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