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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with topics pertaining to open educational resources and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education technology have provided the means for learners all over the world to be participants in online classes. MOOCs are massive because there is no limit on the number of participating students. These MOOC courses are customarily free but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several subjects that learning technology organizations have to struggle with now that e-learning technology is improving so quickly. How can institutions be assured that the quality of these massive open online courses is decent? How can learners assure that instructors are properly credentialed and qualified to teach online? What business strategies are being used by organizations like United Arab Emirates to conduct these massively open online courses? What evaluation strategies and experimental teaching practices are in use today? How can educators get a handle on inadequate student motivation and high student attrition?

As learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing need to comprehend how MOOC courses are being conducted. Public servants and many other stakeholders want to better perceive the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Public servants want to understand how MOOCs can be improved. To satisfy this growing desire for facts the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of these massive open courses and other open education resource issues. This scholarly new book also studies the most important controversies associated with massively open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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