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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which explores issues relevant to open educational resources and massive open online courses. The latest gains in online education are providing the means for humans in every nation on earth to be participants in online courses. Massive open online courses are normally free for students but do not consistently lead to formal accreditation. There are several topics that e-learning organizations are having to consider today because e-learning technology is developing so quickly. How can educators be assured that the education provided by these massively open online courses is tolerable? How can institutions be assured that instructors are properly credentialed to teach MOOCs? What different business strategies are being used by organizations like Harvard University to conduct these MOOC courses? What experimental evaluation strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can stakeholders handle poor student motivation and high learner attrition?

As e-learning technology becomes more procurable there is a increasing demand to gain more knowledge about how these MOOC classes are being conducted. Intellectuals and many other participants desire to better grasp the outcomes of these open education experiments. Students want to gain an understanding of how these MOOC classes can be improved. In response to this developing desire for information the new book MOOCs and Open Education Around the World offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource subjects. This dramatic new book also examines the major controversies associated with these massive open online courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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