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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues pertaining to open education resources (OERs) and massive open online courses (MOOC). Modern advances in online learning technology have enabled humans in every nation on earth to take classes online. MOOC courses are mostly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a variety of issues that distance learning institutions have to struggle with more than ever because distance learning technology is developing so swiftly. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of these massive open online courses is respectable? How can learners be assured that lecturers are properly credentialed for teaching online? What different strategies are being used by institutions like Khan Academy to conduct these massively open online courses? What experimental assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can institutions manage problems like low motivation and high attrition?

The ultimate purpose of massive open online courses is to provide education to more people all around the world. As blended learning technology becomes more procurable there is a expanding desideratum to better understand how these massively open online courses are being conducted. Trainers and many other stakeholders would like to better understand these open education experiments. Students want to grasp how these MOOC courses can be improved. To handle this developing demand for data the scholarly new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open education resource topics. This exciting new book also studies the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OER). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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