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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that addresses topics relevant to open education resources and massive open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education have provided the means for people in nations all around the world to be participants in courses via the Internet. These online MOOC courses are customarily free for learners but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are quite a few issues that online education institutions must deal with now that technology-enhanced learning is developing so fast. How can stakeholders assure that the quality of education provided by these massive open online courses is decent? How can we be assured that educators are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Panama to conduct these MOOCs? What assessment strategies and experimental teaching practices are optimal? How can institutions handle issues like low motivation and high dropout rates?

As online learning becomes more abundant there is a need to be aware of how these MOOC courses are being conducted. Trainers and lots of other stakeholders desire to gain more knowledge about the outcomes of these intriguing new open education experiments. Professors want to comprehend how these MOOC courses can be made better. In response to this crescive desire for knowledge the intriguing new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World provides a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational issues. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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