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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which considers subjects relating to open education resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in online learning have enabled learners all around the world to take classes via the Internet. These MOOC classes are ordinarily free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are many subjects that learning technology organizations are dealing with now that online learning technology is improving so rapidly. How can organizations guarantee that the quality control for these massive open online courses is acceptable? How can stakeholders make sure that lecturers are properly credentialed and qualified to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Saint Barthelemy to conduct these massive open online courses? What teaching practices and assessment strategies are in use today? How can organizations get a handle on poor motivation and high student attrition?

As online learning becomes more procurable there is a growing demand to perceive how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders would like to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Instructors want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC courses can be made better. To respond to this developing need for facts the dramatic new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open educational subjects. This dramatic new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these online MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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