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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which discusses issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. Modern gains in electronic educational technology are enabling people in every nation on earth to take part in classes online. These MOOCs are ordinarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that online education organizations are dealing with today because distance learning technology is improving so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the schooling provided by these MOOCs is acceptable? How can we assure that educators are properly credentialed to teach online MOOC classes? What business strategies are being used by institutions like Udacity to conduct these massively open online courses? What innovative assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions handle problems like low motivation and high student attrition?

As digital learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing desire to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Teachers and many other stakeholders need to gain a better understanding of these important new open educational experiments. Corporations want to better understand how MOOCs can be made better. In response to this desire for facts the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massive open online courses and other open education resource issues. This exciting new book also reviews the key controversies associated with these MOOCs and open educational resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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