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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection that deals with subjects regarding open educational resources and massive open online courses (MOOCs). Brand new improvements in e-learning technology have empowered students all around the world to take part in online classes. These MOOC courses are ordinarily free but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are several issues that elearning institutions are having to attend to more than ever because online education technology is improving so fast. This collected edition details a series of recent reports and interesting announcements related to MOOCs. How can institutions guarantee that the quality of teaching provided by these MOOC classes is good? How can stakeholders guarantee that lecturers are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What business models are being used by institutions like Jordan to conduct these massively open online courses? What teaching practices and experimental assessment strategies are optimal? How can stakeholders deal with the issues of poor student motivation and high student attrition?

As distance learning technology becomes more abundant there is a increasing need to understand how massively open online courses are being conducted. Professors and many other stakeholders desire to better grasp the outcomes of these important new open education undertakings. Researchers want to gain more knowledge about how these MOOCs can be improved. To handle this demand for information the exciting new book MOOCs and Open Education provides a critical analysis of these massively open online courses and other open education subjects. This authoritative new book also articulates the most important controversies associated with these MOOC classes and open educational resources (OERs). To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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