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MOOCs and Open Education Around the World is a edited collection which deals with issues having to do with open education resources (OERs) and massively open online courses (MOOC). New developments in online education have enabled learners in all parts of the world to participate in online courses. MOOC classes are commonly free for students but do not always lead to formal accreditation. There are a lot of issues that online learning organizations must deal with now that learning technology is advancing so quickly. How can institutions assure that the schooling provided by these massively open online courses is all right? How can stakeholders guarantee that instructors are properly credentialed to teach massively open online courses? What different business models are being used by organizations like U.S. Virgin Islands to conduct these massively open online courses? What original assessment strategies and teaching practices are in use today? How can participants get a handle on poor motivation and high learner dropout rates?

As distance learning becomes more commonplace there is a expanding demand to understand how massive open online courses are being conducted. Lecturers and lots of other stakeholders desire to better perceive the outcomes of these significant new open education endeavours. Public servants want to understand how these MOOC classes can be improved. To handle this increasing need for details the new book MOOCs and Open Education offers a critical analysis of massively open online courses and other open educational resource issues. This stimulating new book also talks about the controversies associated with these MOOC courses and open education resources. To learn more please visit MOOCs and Open Education.

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